On 30 May 2018, at 13:54, Bill Cole wrote:
On 30 May 2018, at 14:51 (-0400), Grant Taylor wrote:
Since Qualcom transferred the Eudora IP to the Computer History
Museum and open sourced the source code, I expect that we will be
seeing movement there in. I think I've seen some references to
projects to resurrect the code base within days of the announcement.
I wouldn't bet on a successful reanimation of the Eudora corpse for
MacOS. My understanding from its developers at the time Qualcomm
killed it in favor of re-skinning TBird (which also fizzled) is that
the code was unmaintainable and required essentially a full rewrite to
keep working on MacOS X given the ongoing rot in the Carbon APIs.
Also, IIRC, messages were kept in mbox-like files. That would certainly
not scale well.
Best regards
-lem
